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Peace hope springs eternal

John Garang

U.S. officials expressed optimism Aug. 7 that Sudan's fragile peace would hold and that a strong, unified new leadership would continue forward despite the loss of dominant southern leader John Garang, whose death in a July 30 helicopter crash sparked riots in Sudanese cities and raised fears that the peace agreement he helped reach in January might fall apart.

They praised new Sudan People's Liberation Movement head Salva Kiir (pictured), inaugurated as first vice president Aug. 9, as a strong leader. "His vision builds on that of Dr. Garang," said Connie Newman, head of the U.S. State Department's Africa bureau.

She said a team of five experts from the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board were in Nairobi ready to assist with the investigation into the helicopter crash.

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